I wanted to reinstall grub-efi-amd64 and got this:
markus@bmtMB1:/var/log/apt$ sudo apt install grub-efi-amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
grub-efi-amd64 : Depends: grub-common (= 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3)
Depends: grub2-common (= 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3)
Depends: grub-efi-amd64-bin (= 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
markus@bmtMB1:/var/log/apt$
So...something is wrong here. Puhh...how to fix that?
Thanks and Cheers
Markus
Am 24.06.21 um 13:10 schrieb Greg Wooledge:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 08:49:40AM +0200, Markus wrote:Ok so...hmmm...I did not remove it myself. I mean why would I want to do that?!?! Nevertheless this is an issue now. Interestingly when booting my computer this morning grub was there and booted into Buster. Shouldn't it be gone if it got removed (even though it not got purged)? Hmmm...!?!?Removing the grub packages doesn't remove GRUB from your hard drive(s). Thankfully.How to fix that? Is there actually something wrong (this morning grub was there!!!) that needs to be fixed? Is it save to just reinstall grub-efi-amd64?It should be, as far as I know. I'm not sure whether this will prompt you for where to install GRUB, or whether it will retain knowledge of this from the config files which you say haven't been purged yet. It'll probably regenerate the grub.cfg menu, though. If you haven't done anything too silly, that shouldn't be an issue.